Rep. Mike Ross, who flip-flopped on the public option and has authored an amendment that seems like a copycat of Max Baucus's no-good, terribly bad bill, has been in secretive talks with a Republican, Rep. Charles Boustany (R-LA), for weeks.

We could say secretive is better, but realistically for large applications you have to justify your every-move – for Apple and other companies it might happen within their own compounds, it still happends.

The spot, which it will show in states including Michigan, North Carolina and Ohio, specifically cites the billionaire industrialists connected to Americans for Prosperity, Charles and David Koch, whom it describes as "secretive billionaires attacking President Obama."